2015 LTER ASM - The unique value of long-term, networked studies (Tuesday)

Environmental sensor applications at USDA Forest Service Experimental Forests: The Smart Forest Network

jcampbell — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 17:18:02 +0000

Poster Number:

285

Presenter/Primary Author:

John Campbell

Co-Authors:

Lindsey E. Rustad

Co-Authors:

Mary Beth Adams

Co-Authors:

John C. Brissette

Co-Authors:

David Y. Hollinger

Co-Authors:

John M. Kabrick

Co-Authors:

Randall K. Kolka

Co-Authors:

Mary E. Martin

Co-Authors:

Thomas M. Schuler

Co-Authors:

Stephen D. Sebestyen

The 21st century is emerging as a time of great environmental change, including a rapidly changing climate, continued inputs of atmospheric pollutants, and current and projected shifts in land use

Digging deeper: Looking for missing nitrogen in the mineral soil

cfuss — Sat, 01 Aug 2015 01:53:07 +0000

Poster Number:

277

Presenter/Primary Author:

Colin Fuss

Co-Authors:

Gary Lovett

Co-Authors:

Christine Goodale

Co-Authors:

Scott Ollinger

Co-Authors:

Bridget Darby

Co-Authors:

Ashley Lang

Co-Authors:

Paloma Spina

Co-Authors:

Andy Ouimette

Co-Authors:

Zaixing Zhou

Five decades of biogeochemical budgets at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest have revealed a shift from having an unexplained source of nitrogen (N) to the ecosystem in the 1960s and 70s to an u

Santa Barbara Channel Biodiversity Observation Network

rmiller — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 19:50:16 +0000

Poster Number:

244

Presenter/Primary Author:

Robert Miller

Co-Authors:

Andrew Rassweiler

Co-Authors:

David Siegel

Co-Authors:

Craig Carlson

Co-Authors:

Kevin Lafferty

Co-Authors:

Phaedon Kyriakidis

Co-Authors:

Daniel Reed

Co-Authors:

Deborah Igesias-Rodriguez

Co-Authors:

Andrew Thompson

Co-Authors:

John Hildebrand

Co-Authors:

Douglas McCauley

Co-Authors:

Margaret O'Brien

Co-Authors:

Milton Love

The Santa Barbara Channel (SBC) is a transition zone characterized by high species and habitat diversity and strong environmental gradients within a relatively small area where cold- and warm-water

Meteorological influences on high alpine water chemistry

awilson1 — Fri, 31 Jul 2015 05:54:16 +0000

Poster Number:

199

Presenter/Primary Author:

Alana Wilson

Co-Authors:

Mark W. Williams

A time series of water chemistry from five alpine sampling sites at the Niwot Ridget LTER is examined to determine the influence of precipitation.

Autonomous year-round sampling sheds light on Antarctica’s polar night

jpatriarche — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:11:00 +0000

Poster Number:

174

Presenter/Primary Author:

Jeff Patriarche

Co-Authors:

John C. Priscu

The perennially ice-covered lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), Antarctica have been the focus of intense ecological research as part of the MCM LTER for over 20 years.

Student Poster Competition:

Yes

Continuous modeling of hyporheic exchange explains chemostasis in glacial meltwater streams, Antarctica

awlostowski — Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:55:56 +0000

Poster Number:

140

Presenter/Primary Author:

Adam Wlostowski

Co-Authors:

Michael N. Gooseff

Co-Authors:

Diane McKnight

Co-Authors:

W. Berry Lyons

Chemostasis (comparatively minor change of solute concentrations over a wide range of discharge) of weathering-derived solutes (e.g., silica) is commonly observed in temperate streams, indicating t

Student Poster Competition:

Yes

Scaling properties of rainfall-runoff generation processes and nutrient flushing mechanisms in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Part 1: Hydrologic modelling incorporating electrical conductivity and water stable isotopes

csegura — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 20:33:34 +0000

Poster Number:

132

Presenter/Primary Author:

Catalina Segura

Co-Authors:

Lydia Nickolas

Even though it is widely recognized that water quality and availability are crucial to society and wildlife sustainability, we are still not able to predict how much water is moved through a given

Scaling properties of rainfall-runoff generation processes and nutrient flushing in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Part 2: Relation between rainfall runoff and nutrient flushing in the Oregon Cascade Mountains

lnickolas — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 19:02:25 +0000

Poster Number:

130

Presenter/Primary Author:

Lydia Nickolas

Co-Authors:

Catalina Segura

Understanding how much water moves through a given catchment following a storm event and its relation to the flux of nutrients, solutes, and contaminants is of fundamental importance to water resou

Student Poster Competition:

Yes

Climate change homogenizes landscape vegetation patterns at the catchment scale

thwang — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 17:01:28 +0000

Poster Number:

112

Presenter/Primary Author:

Taehee Hwang

Co-Authors:

Lawrence E Band

Co-Authors:

Chelcy F Miniat

Co-Authors:

James M Vose

Co-Authors:

Conghe Song

Co-Authors:

Paul V Bolstad

Co-Authors:

Jason P Love

Forested mountain watersheds are important sources of freshwater supply and carbon sequestration, and there has been an interest how climate change and variability will impact forest ecosystem patt

A paleoecological record of historical hurricane events from the Florida Everglades

qyao — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 19:15:26 +0000

Poster Number:

Presenter/Primary Author:

Qiang Yao

Co-Authors:

Kam-biu Liu

Palynological, loss-on-ignition, and X-ray fluorescence analysis are performed on a 5.25 m sediment core from a mangrove forest at the mouth of the Shark River Slough in the Everglades